Madness Takes Its Toll

So it turns out that about 90% of the stuff I use my computer for I now use my iPhone for instead. I kinda like this because except for when the boy of awesome is playing games on it pretty much the only thing I run to said computer for is to play wow, and I don't do much of that anymore either.

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I didn't realize the headphones that came with the iPhone had a mic on it so they're a full fledged headset too. That's pretty cool!

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If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

Copied from ... uh.. a couple people, actually. :)

So my dying razr has been replaced by a shiny new iPhone. Which I loves!

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I guess its been dropped too many times because my phone has started randomly rebooting itself the last couple days. Altho a few days ago i was outside when the park right by work got struck by lightning so maybe its a bit short circuited

Today's garden fun consisted of planting stuff! Over the last weekish I've acquired a few things, I bought two little cheapie pots each of portulaca and celosia, a heliotrope, a curly wurly, and rescued a lantana, a pot full of pitiful petunias, and a tomato plant.

The pitiful petunias were in the trash can, and I don't know if they'll survive because of how broken up they got when they were thrown away (the pot broke) but we'll see. They filled up the bed quite well. I put two of the celosia and two of the portulaca in with it, and the curly wurly in the same bed, it's now filled up quite nicely. The heliotrope and lantana went into the unfilled veggie row beside the sweet potatoes that may not grow, and the rest of the portulaca and celosia went in with the lilies and impatiens.

I also made use of my surprisingly awesome pruning shears to thin out peace lilies some, since they were getting so dense the new growth was dying before it hit sunlight. Pruned the ficus too, including some of the roots so hopefully it wont be so root bound and will get a little fluffier up top.

I nipped an onion out of the garden today - it's immatureish, and the size of a green onion, but it was the exact right amount for salmon salad. :)

The jalapeño plant has a flower on it too!

So I switched our power plan to the energy efficient plan, which would save us a lot of money based on the calculations the power people and I did....

Holy cow!

Got the power bill today, under $100!

Go look at my garden! I have pictures! Lots of!

There will be many more pictures to come too, though, so don't think this is all of them. :D

My lillies are all pouffy bloomy happy!

Learn to wear fucking sunscreen, stupid.

I came home today knowing I was going to get a gardening related surprise.

I didn't know how amazingly awesome it would be.

It was superb. I cried. I have giant boxes for planting stuffs lining almost my entire deck. I have like 35 feet of protected planting space, and a bunch of stuff planted.

Pictures to come tomorrow!

This is the fourth or fifth night in a row I've woken up around 4:30 am and can't fall back asleep. FUCK. I hate insomnia, especially when I have to be up at 8 to go to work. Ug.

I bought a tree today. I'm rebuilding my arboretum and garden. :D Yay! I can has tree. There will be gazing balls, bird feeders, and maybe even a garden gnome. And a hammock. Or chaise lounge. Not sure which yet, honestly the lounge would be smarter, but we'll see.

I've been playing wow with my bruddah. He's become an addict. Lawl.

I need water, maybe then I'll sleep more. Fuckin insomnia. I figure it's last weeks double dose of steroids are still in my system (effin hardees... allergic reactions for the LOSE) or I need to start taking sleeping pills or something. This is kinda insane.

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My life is happy. :)

For whatever reason, yesterday saw me feeling like a fat worthless cow for a good part of the day. I don't even really know what triggered it, and some of that's still there today. I just generally feel like shit right now, mentally. I got my hair cut yesterday morning, and I liked it. Maybe I shouldn't have or something, or maybe I don't like it as much as I thought. I don't know. Maybe I should just go dye it. Actually I might do just that. But whatever.

I had the standard fare of nightmares last night, and after dropping Reagan off at work this morning (car juggling, yay, the fucking trucks clutch is gone) (he's working 8-5 today, me 1:30 to 10:30 which is the worst hours ever, because it's so DEAD then but whatever) I realized oh shit! I forgot my taxes. About 300 times. So I did the federal, had no trouble, e-filed it for free, and will theoretically see a $94 return. Maybe. Probably not, though, because I've not seen a return in years, first thanks to the exs student loans that he wouldn't pay back taking them and now thanks to my own student loans taking them. I don't mind if mine take them, I'm hoping that I'll actually be able to start paying those back this year too, now that things in the income department aren't so dire.

But then, it turns out you have to pay an additional $40 for the state tax bullshit with turbo tax.

... sigh.

I don't want to spend that, so I go look up the alabama state tax forms, find a spiffy one from the dept. of revenue that is all nice and automagic and calculates all the stuff for you --- and then I can't print it. Or save it. Or print it as a pdf.

I have three printers. One is out of blue ink, one is out of red ink, and the third one is out of black ink.

The first two can print using only the black ink cartridge. But it wont print because it's out of red/blue.

*sigh*

The other one, well it's out of black but it didn't tell me that until it was 1/3 of the way through the page which came out all red. Sigh.

This became progressively more frustrating. My mom has the same printer as one of mine, so I went next door, borrowed her ink cartridges.... except she's also out of blue. So since I don't have my check card on me today, I go to the bank, get some cash and find that no nearby store has the cartridges that'll fit ANY of my printers.

At this point I'm so mad I'm ready to put my fist through something, so I stare at a pretty bracelet for a bit, try to stop being angry, give up, and come back home, realizing on my way that today is one of those days that I would've been going next door to hang out with my dad, goofing off, having lunch, telling jokes, making each other feel better....

and now I can't stop crying because I just miss my daddy.

Omg every break is a bathroom cleaning no wonder ive had uti trouble recently

The scariest and worst part of a uti for me is that i cant tell if my back is hurting because my back is fucked up and hurts a lot or if its moved to my kidneys.

Omg used porn season started. My red car is yellow green!

Edit: *ahem* Yeah, that was supposed to be tree porn season.... silly auto-txt on the phone. :)

I don't mind the split sleeping schedule... I go to bed about 2-3 am or so, and wake up when The Boy gets home for a bit. Sometimes I'm up an hour, sometimes I'm up 5 minutes, sometimes I'm up a couple of hours.

But I will say, I look forward to us not having to do that in a couple weeks.

Legs: uber sore. Reason: good one. Worth it: totally. :)